Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Supreme Court Judge Sees Crackdown on Begging in Cuba

The Penal Code punishes those who incite others to beg, and the penalty increases if they are children or disabled people.

Today’s featured artist is Pepe Vasquez from Peru with the song Jipi Jay recorded in 1982.

Five of the seven women are classified as suffering “forced disappearance,” their exact whereabouts and condition unknown.

They’re designed to be a short-term solution. But in Cuba, solutions to the housing problem have moved at a snail’s pace for decades.

La Güira National Park, is a paradise in the midst of the humid mountains in Cuba’s westernmost province of Pinar del Rio. (10 photos)

Potatoes have just arrived at the rationed markets in Havana and Cubans do not need a town crier to alert the population.

Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Surrounded by the same secrecy that accompanied their arrival, in recent weeks, the Turkish floating power plants have begun to leave Cuba.

One day after the fundraising event was prohibited, the organization’s president, Jose Evenor Taboada, was exiled from Nicaragua.

“The killing is the third fatal attack on journalists this year in Mexico the deadliest nation in the Western Hemisphere for the press.”